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As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development, Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. Spanning many disciplines, the journal provides the latest research, not only for researchers and theoreticians, but also for child psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, specialists in early childhood education, educational psychologists, special education teachers, and other researchers.

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Abstract

22 preschool children with low levels of social responsiveness were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 conditions. The self-speech group watched videotapes of social interactions accompanied by a self-speech (first-person) sound track which described the activities of the child model. The narrative group watched the same videotapes accompanied by a narrative (third-person) sound track. A nature-film control and a no-treatment control group were also employed. Pretreatment, posttreatment, and follow-up observations were made with 3 different measures of social behavior. Children in the self-speech condition increased on all 3 measures, and the self-speech condition was clearly more effective than the narrative condition.